Re: [idn] Problems in normalisation and matching

["Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>]

To be more specific, 
double-click&drag&drop mouse operation is an UI for cut&paste data transfer *system* service.
This will clarify my point. It's clear that only "IDN-compliant OS" can support "IDN-aware" applictions
faithfully.

Soobok Lee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Seng" <jseng@pobox.org.sg>
To: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: [idn] Problems in normalisation and matching


> Right. But IETF deals mostly with wire-protocols. UI issues such as
> cut-and-paste should be done more at a more appropriate forum e.g. POSIX.
> 
> -James Seng
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>
> To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [idn] Problems in normalisation and matching
> 
> 
> > Copy-and-paste *operation*   is not only a user interface but also a
> trigger to
> > a critical system service  for interprocess communications between
> independant applications
> > like unix & NT-pipe or socket ,and it transfers some data from one
> application to the other
> > with  conversions or transcodings.
> >
> > Some IETF protocols (TCP/IP) are often very strict at forcing on-the-wire
> communication octets streams to be
> > little-endian and big-endian. Cut-and-paste is a popular communication
> tool and have much more
> > stricter rules and conventions for various data formats (images, sounds ,
> URLs and texts ).
> > IDN specifications can recommends special treatements of IDN or IDN-like
> strings in text copy&paste operation.
> >
> > Identifier security and integrity issue around copy-and-paste operation
> still
> > is of the concern of this WG.
> >
> > Soobok Lee
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc@dcrocker.net>
> >  >
> > > The concern for cut-and-paste is obviously valid, but it is not the job
> of
> > > the IETF protocol standards to operate well within a user cut-and-paste
> > > environment.
> >
> >
> >
> >